About: akkda is a simple network monitoring system designed for small and
medium size computer networks. Its purpose is to quick detect system or
network faults, and to display information about detected problems for the
administrator. It is designed as a pro-active network monitor. It does not
wait for information from any agents, systems, etc. It collects
information itself every minute (you can decrease this period to as little
as 1 second if needed). Almost all services of the monitored hosts are
discovered automatically.

Changes: This release fixes some bugs and adds little enhancements and
support for Mozilla Firefox and Netscape Navigator and limited support for
Opera (this works fine except for context menus).

About: anyfs-tools allows you to recover and convert filesystems while
using minimal extra disk space. Unlike other recovery tools, anyfs-tools
doesn't copy all the files found on other disks (or partitions), but only
saves information about the location of the file blocks to an external
inode table. After recovery, a user may mount the damaged filesystem with
anyfs and the external inode table and then interact with all recovered
files with any program.

Changes: A new build_xfs utility was added. Now you can convert FS to XFS
with anyfs-tools. A new anyconvertfs script was added. It is a
user-friendly script for automation of converting. The documentation was
improved. A "USAGE EXAMPLES" section was added to manual pages. An
anyfs-tools.pot file and Russian messages (ru.po) were added. Many
bugfixes in all utilities and the kernel module.

About: Bioclipse is a rich-client platform chemistry and biology
workbench. It provides access to many open source bioinformatics and
chemoinformatics toolkits and has plugins for the Chemistry Development
Kit, JChemPaint, Jmol, and BioJava.

Changes: This is the first stable release. It fixes reading of sequence
resources from the EBI database, and does not open a 2D editor when the
file does not have 2D coordinates. It also adds a lot of new
documentation, and adds CSS for easier reading.

About: Breakage is a drum machine with unusual real time programming and
performance. Where traditional step sequencers edit one note at time,
Breakage adds neural network and pattern morphing functions to allow
composition above the note level.

Changes: The neural network gives much smoother results using Joone's
backprop training algorithm (was using resilient backprop). The sequence
size (length and number of channels) can now be changed through the
settings menu, and it doesn't crash the ChucK sequencer anymore. There is
a new multiply morph. The subtract morph now works properly.

About: Brutus is an Exchange connector and development framework that
offers access to all of MAPI and therefore to all versions of Microsoft
Exchange from version 5.5 onwards. It is a complete wrapping of all of
MAPI into a (large) set of CORBA interfaces. It enables any groupware
client to integrate seamlessly into any organization with large Exchange
deployments on an equal footing with MS Outlook. Being based on CORBA, it
is platform independent, and works equally well on Linux, the BSDs,
Windows, or wherever there is a CORBA implementation available.

Changes: Brutus client login failures due to lifeline errors are now
reported back to the client in a more descriptive way. evolution-brutus
has seen some very big performance gains when updating the folder summary.
Very big folders will see a hundred-fold performance gain when the folder
is seen for the first time by e-b.

About: Bzr is a simple decentralized revision control system.
Decentralized revision control systems give users the ability to branch
remote repositories to a local context. Users can commit to local branches
without requiring special permission from the branches that they branched
from.

Changes: This release improves performance for many operations, moves
bundles into the core, and fixes bugs.

About: EasyBMPtoAVI is a cross-platform, easy-to-use application that
converts a series of BMP images of any bit depth to an AVI movie file.
EasyBMPtoAVI supports both command-line and interactive use.

Changes: This release has two major feature enhancements: support for
noninteger frame rates (e.g. NTSC 29.97) and (temporal) smoothing via
interpolation of adjacent frames. In addition, there is experimental
support for temporal smoothing by interleaving adjacent frames, rather
than interpolating them. This option should run faster.

About: EiffelMedia is a multimedia library for Eiffel. The library allows
you to use 2D and 3D graphics, sound, networking, and input via joystick
and keyboard. It has many smaller frameworks that make life easier for a
multimedia or game programmer.

About: Endeavour Mark II is a file browser/file manager with an image
browser, a recycled objects system, and an archiver front end. It features
all the common UNIX file operations for all types of disk objects found the
UNIX realm. It also supports disk drive mounting, a fully customizable
window appearance, a MIME Types system, and interapplication drag & drop
support for KDE and GNOME compatability (although KDE and GNOME are not
required).

Changes: This release adds TEdit, a simple text editor, known progress
values to the Archiver's progress dialog, support for the new X Archive
using libxar, and a ChTime (set time stamps) function. It fixes a DND
widget focus bug and a resizing list column width recording bug.

About: eZ publish is a content management system and development
framework. As a content management system (CMS), its most notable feature
is its revolutionary, fully customizable, and extendable content model.
This is also what makes it suitable as a platform for general Web
development. Its stand-alone libraries can be used for cross-platform,
database independent PHP projects. eZ publish is also well suited for news
publishing, e-commerce (B2B and B2C), portals, and corporate Web sites,
intranets, and extranets. eZ publish is dual licenced between GPL and the
eZ publish professional licence.

Changes: These releases addresses an important bug that unfortunately was
introduced in the 3.8.2 (and 3.6.9 and 3.7.7) releases. In addition, two
new security-related bugs of medium severity have been addressed in these
releases.

About: Gideon is an innovative GUI builder for GTK+. It is an advanced
IDE-embeddable RAD tool designed to fulfill the needs of desktop
programmers who want to create multi-platform GTK+ based applications with
minimal GUI coding. Gideon is full-featured yet elegant: its unique
Property Explorer solves many GUI constructing tasks in a versatile manner
without additional popup dialogs. The project is targeted to develop a tool
that is coherent and highly productive for GTK+ experts as well as simple
and accessible for newcomers.

About: gipfel is a tool to find the names of mountains or points of
interest on a picture. It uses a database containing names and GPS data.
With the given viewpoint (the point from which the picture was taken) and
two known mountains on the picture, it can compute all parameters needed
to compute the positions of other mountains on the picture.
Additionally, it can try to guess these parameter if only one mountain is
known on the picture. In this case, a few other peaks need to be marked,
but it is not necessary to know their names. It can also be used to play
around with the parameters manually. But be warned: It is pretty
difficult to find the right parameters for a given picture manually.

Changes: This release adds image stitching. It can generate panorama
images from previously referenced images. The images don't even need to
overlap. Various bugs were fixed.

About: GNU/Linux Desktop Testing Project is aimed at producing a high
quality test automation framework and cutting-edge tools that can be used
to test the GNU desktop and improve it. It uses the "Accessibility"
libraries to poke through the application's user interface. The framework
also has tools to record test-cases based on user-selection on the
application.

Changes: This release includes a new recording module, evolution and gedit
automation scripts, updated documentation, and GNOME Tinderbox integration.

About: GRASS (the Geographic Resources Analysis Support System) is a
software raster- and vector-based GIS (Geographic Information System),
image processing system, graphics production system, and spatial modeling
system. It contains many modules for raster data manipulation, vector data
manipulation, rendering images on the monitor or paper, multispectral image
geocoding and processing, point data management and general data
management. It also has tools for interfacing with digitizers, scanners,
and the PostgreSQL, DBF, and ODBC connected databases. In the UNIX
environment GRASS operates through a shell and a menu bar, and can also
work under the X Window System. For MS-Windows a generic display driver is
available.

Changes: This release adds hundreds of new features as well as support for
the latest GIS data formats. The 3D raster (voxel) support has been greatly
enhanced. A new graphical GIS manager and menu system has been implemented.
The NVIZ visualization tool has been enhanced to display 3D vector data and
voxel volumes, and supports the creation of on-the-fly MPEG animations.
Substantial message translation (i18n) with support for FreeType fonts,
including multi-byte Asian characters, was added.

About: GuiLoader is a high-performance and compact GuiXml loader library.
This library allows GTK+ applications to create GUI widgets and objects at
run-time from GuiXml resource files. GuiLoader is a GObject subclass and
has a trivial language-independent API. GuiLoader was designed to be
easily wrapped for any language that has GTK+ bindings.

About: GuiLoader/C++ is a C++ binding to the GuiLoader library. It is a
convenience layer that simplifies development of GuiLoader based
applications written in the C++ language. It introduces exception safety,
binding of GTK+ objects defined in GuiXml to C++ variables, and type-safe
dynamic connection to signals.

About: libavg is a library for media presentations and installations that
is meant to make Macromedia Director superflous. Installations are
scripted using an XML-based layout language and Python for interaction.

Changes: This version includes Intel Mac support and several improvements
related to Macs. Videos with alpha channels are now supported, and support
for sync to vblank works on Macs (and even on Linux boxes with broken
OpenGL drivers like the VIA EPIA). The automatic tests have been greatly
improved. Multisampling and gamma correction support have been added.

About: The libevent API provides a mechanism to execute a callback
function when a specific event occurs on a file descriptor or after a
timeout has been reached. It is meant to replace the asynchronous event
loop found in event-driven network servers.

About: The PreludeDB Library provides an abstraction layer upon the type
and format of the database used to store IDMEF alerts. It allows
developers to use the Prelude IDMEF database easily and efficiently
without worrying about SQL, and to access the database independently of
the type/format of the database.

Changes: Alert/heartbeat deletion performance improvements on the order of
3000% (preludedb-admin already benefits from it; the next Prewikka release
will benefit from it too). --with-(perl|python|swig) detection path
ordering has been fixed. Verbose error reporting on log file opening
errors. Various bugfixes.

System :: Operating System
System :: Operating System Kernels :: Linux

About: Linux is a clone of the Unix kernel, written from scratch by Linus
Torvalds with assistance from a loosely-knit team of hackers across the
Net. It aims towards POSIX and Single UNIX Specification compliance. It
has all the features you would expect in a modern fully-fledged Unix
kernel, including true multitasking, virtual memory, shared libraries,
demand loading, shared copy-on-write executables, proper memory
management, and TCP/IP networking.

Changes: This release fixes a handful of local vulnerabilities and a few
remote IPV6 and SCTP vulnerabilities. The forcedeth driver was terribly
broken and has been updated to 0.50. Libata has been resynchronized with
2.6.13.

About: Linux-PAM provides a flexible mechanism for authenticating users.
It consists of a set of libraries that handle the authentication tasks of
applications on the system. The library provides a stable general
interface to which privilege-granting programs (such as login and su)
defer to perform standard authentication tasks. PAM was invented by SUN
Microsystems.

Changes: This release fixes a bootstrap problem if no older Linux-PAM
release is installed.

About: Mesa is a 3-D graphics library which uses the OpenGL API
(Application Programming Interface). Mesa cannot be called an
implementation of OpenGL since the author did not obtain an OpenGL license
from SGI. Furthermore, Mesa cannot claim OpenGL conformance since the
conformance tests are only available to OpenGL licensees. Despite these
technical/legal terms, you may find Mesa to be a valid alternative to
OpenGL. Most applications written for OpenGL can use Mesa instead without
changing the source code.

Changes: This release adds OpenGL Shading Language support, implements
screen rotation support for Intel cards, improves support for ATI r200,
fixes a number of thread safety bugs, and adds a new demo.

About: The Midgard Components Framework (also called MidCOM) is an
advanced component architecture which extends the Midgard Web content
management framework. It provides mechanisms for building a Web site using
components without much need for writing code to glue all this together.
The administration site gets built automatically by using those
components. Goodies like a caching engine and subrequests make site
building even easier.

Changes: This minor update to 2.5.9 includes a new centralized metadata
service and styling for protoGrowl notifications.

About: midillo is a library and a set of tools for MIDI file manipulation.
At this point, utilities included only do MIDI filtering, conversion to SMF
(Standard MIDI File) format 0, and a diagnostic dump.

About: mod_bt is a BitTorrent tracker for the Apache Web server. It is
written in C and runs as an Apache 2.x module. It is possible for mod_perl
or PHP to directly access the tracker's information; no need to download
and bdecode scrape URLs. The tracker is fully configured from within
Apache's own configuration file. The goal of mod_bt is to seamlessly
integrate Bram Cohen's BitTorrent protocol with Apache so that any
Webmaster who serves up large files can shift the burden of bandwidth onto
its clients with as little hassle as possible.

Changes: A rare segmentation fault in the /announce handler was fixed, the
project was made compatible with 64-bit and big-endian systems, and mod_bt
was added as an official Debian package.

About: MP3FS is a read-only FUSE filesystem that transcodes FLAC audio
files to MP3 on the fly when opened and read. It is useful to enable the
use of your FLAC collection with software and/or hardware that only
understands MP3s. It is also a novel alternative to traditional MP3
encoder applications. Just use your favorite file browser to select the
files you want encoded, and copy them somewhere.

About: NuFW is an authentication firewall suite: the gateway authorizes a
packet depending on which remote user has sent it. It can also set quality
of service on a per-user basis and log user activities into a SQL database.
Furthermore, it can use an external authentication source such as an LDAP
directory and be the key of a Single Sign On solution.

Changes: This release fixes a crash issue with some very recent GLib
releases and improves connections tracking handling.

About: Open Blue Lab is a rapid application development framework for
building portal applications based on Web 2.0. It is currently being used
to develop a full Web ERP from scratch. Portal layout may be configured
through the UI, and Ajax and HTML-based forms are automatically built from
XML widget definitions, which may be generated on the fly from a UML model
that describes your information system. Widgets are dynamically populated,
making them data-aware automatically at run time with no need to code any
database interaction. This framework allows you to focus on Information
System design, with forms and portal architecture being generated
automatically.

Changes: Elements in the portal have been changed. The Warehouse form has
been changed to a Location form. Supplier, Notification, and
OrganizeBatchPick forms have been added.

About: OpenDBX is an extremely lightweight but extensible C library for
accessing databases with a single API. It provides a clean and simple
interface across all supported databases that leads to an elegant code
design automatically. Currently, Firebird/Interbase, MySQL, PostgreSQL,
SQLite, and SQL Server (MS and Sybase) are supported, and backends for
more native database APIs can be written easily.

Changes: Most of the work in this release is related to the firebird
backend, which now returns correct ISO date and time information and
decimal values in text format and (most importantly) can handle
transactions. This release also fixes the segfault produced by
odbx_finish() and corrects minor bugs in the MySQL and PgSQL backends.
Scripts for automated regression tests are included. They will prevent the
introduction of bugs in existing code and will also be helpful for
comparison between existing and newly-written backends.

About: OpenMONI is a semi-transparent on-desktop system monitor for
OpenBSD. It does not require anything additional on a standard OpenBSD
installation (any port or package). It is fully scriptable, and has a
simple, easy-to-understand Lisp-like scripting language (OML). You can
fully control OpenMONI's behaviour and style from OML. OpenMONI comes with
a pack of OML scripts ready to use.

Changes: init.oml is now used to set up general stuff like window
appearances. The file I/O implementation has been simplified. Memory leak
and X bugs have been fixed. PNG support is now included and enabled by
default.

About: The OpenSCADA project aims to create a full-featured and
state-of-the-art SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) system
to be used in industrial and civil engineering applications to control
distributed systems from a master location.

Changes: Cancellation of long running operations is now supported. The
ability to write attributes to data items was added. The SNMP server can
be configured using an XML configuration file. Some minor issues have been
solved.

About: PHP-Spacester is a clone of the MySpace and Friendster social
networking sites. It strives to be dynamic. It will also support the XDNS
(Xotmid Distributed Network System), which means that all sites can be
connected to hubs that are in turn connected to each other, allowing all
sites to share data.

About: Piragibe is a business database driven application framework. Its
main goal is to mimic, as closely as possible, the capabilities and
behaviour of Oracle Forms. It offers a metaphor that resembles Oracle
Developer with data blocks, forms, triggers, and events, a neat layer of
data validation capable of validating fields, records, and blocks of
records under programmatic control, clear separation and independence
between database access, programmatic views of database data and visual
presentation of data and information, access to any database supported by
PHP, national language support, and the ability to develop CRUD
applications with a few lines of code.

About: Portable SDK for UPnP Devices (libupnp) provides developers with an
API and code for building control points, devices, and bridges that are
compliant with Version 1.0 of the Universal Plug and Play Device
Architecture Specification. This allows discovery, event notification, and
control of devices on a network, independent of operating system,
programming language, or physical network connection.

Changes: This stable release contains several fixes and improvements and
is now available for Solaris, Linux (32/64), Windows, and FreeBSD.

About: Python XHTML is a simple Python module for the generation of valid
XHTML.

Changes: This release adds a line_break argument to the "add" methods in
order to append a line break tag, changes the API for abbreviation and
acronym tags, and specifies the title attribute as a separate method
argument.

About: qSong is a song database program with multimedia features for
worship musicians and other people working with music. It allows you to
store and manage all song-related information, such as chords, lyrics,
authors, and copyright. It can create songbooks in popular formats such as
PDF, HTML, and ChordPro. All items in the database can be searched and
sorted.

About: recordMyDesktop is a program that captures audio and video data
from a Linux desktop session, producing an Ogg-encapsulated Theora-Vorbis
file. The main goal is to be as unobstrusive as possible by proccessing
only regions of the screen that have changed.

Changes: Behavior on the lack of a $DISPLAY environment variable has been
corrected. Size adjustment is now quantized at 16 pixels, in order to
avoid complete image distortion, present at certain resolutions, when
using shared memory (conditional or not). There are also some other minor
bugfixes, related mostly to default values of options.

About: RoFreeSBIE is short for Romanian Free System Burned In Economy. It
is an installable live CD/DVD. It is desktop-oriented and based on the
FreeBSD operating system. Its goal is to promote FreeBSD, to serve as an
educational tool, and to be used as a mobile desktop. It contains a lot of
software from different categories and includes scripts for common tasks
such as mounting and umounting known partitions, mounting and umounting
USB devices, and so on.

About: segatex is a tool to configure SELinux policy with the help of GUI.
Just push a button and it will generate a .te file in the same directory.
You can then edit your .te file, make a module, and install.

About: SquirrelMail is a standards-based Webmail package. It includes
built-in pure PHP support for the IMAP and SMTP protocols, and all pages
are rendered in pure HTML 4.0 for maximum compatibility across browsers.
It has very few requirements, and is very easy to configure and install.
It has all the functionality you would want from an email client,
including strong MIME support, address books, and folder manipulation.

Changes: This release adds an important security fix for a problem with
logged-in users being able to overwrite variables, and a collection of
regular bugfixes.

About: TaskFreak! is a Web-based task manager and todo list. It lets you
organize tasks per project, priority, and deadline and context. It is easy
to install and to use, and particular attention has been paid to the design
and usability in order to improve the productivity by not spending too much
time on the tool itself. It is compatible with PHP 4 and 5 and supports
both mySQL and SQLite.

Changes: Compatibility with MySQL versions earlier than 4.1 was fixed.

About: UProxy is a proxy for UDP protocols. UProxy was initially designed
to allow users to play Unreal Tournament matches over the Internet on
computers sharing a dial up connection. It could also be used by any
client-server application that uses the UDP protocol and doesn't require
clients to bind a fixed port. UProxy should run under Windows, Linux, or
any OS which supports BSD sockets.

Changes: Besides some cosmetic changes in the code, this release should
fix an ugly bug affecting UProxy when used in a Unix-like operating
system.

About: VMware allows you to run 'virtual machines' inside a Linux host. It
is not an emulator. It provides a virtual computer within the host which
can boot whichever OS you decide to put on the filesystem image that is
used as a harddrive. It will run DOS 6.22, Win 3.1, Win9x,
WinNT/2000/XP/2003, Linux, Novell, and more. The only main requirement is
a 400 MHz or better machine, along with lots of RAM (128M minimum, 256M
recommended).

Changes: This release adds support for many host and guest operating
system versions.

About: wallpaperChooser is a small application for managing your
wallpapers. It has the ability to store wallpapers, preview them, and set
them on the desktop.

Changes: This release adds to the makefile the creation of the needed
directories and files in the home directory of the user, and adds to the
code the ability to check whether the needed directories and files exist
and create them if they don't.

About: WEP key changer (WepKC) is a client/server application to protect
ad-hoc (point to point) wireless networks when no sophisticated protocols
like WPA are available, due to software or hardware limitations. It simply
and randomly changes the WEP key after a specified amount of time.

About: Wine is an implementation of the Windows API on top of X and Unix.
It does not require Microsoft Windows, but can use native Windows DLLs if
they are available. It provides both a development toolkit for porting
Windows source code to Unix as well as a program loader, allowing many
unmodified Windows programs to run on x86-based Unixes.

Changes: This release adds support for a proper Trash folder, many
improvements to the IDL compiler, better FreeBSD support, a number of MSI
bugfixes, many RichEdit improvements, and lots of bugfixes.

About: The Yana Framework is a component framework for developing PHP
applications. It can be expanded with your own plugins (components). It
includes skin and template support, multiple languages (German and English
by default), mature administration functionality, multiple installation
profiles, user login and administration, a database API based on PEAR-DB
that also offers database schema support, and a GUI/code generator for
your own plugins. It also includes an easy to use query tool that
automatically maps database commands to a flat file if no database support
is available. Plugins provided with this software are a guestbook, an RSS
to HTML converter, and a search engine. Complete (German) documentation
is included.

Changes: This version improves several features, adds more documentation,
offers a cleaned up API, and fixes several bugs from the last beta
release. It should already be stable enough for your daily work.